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http://www.dezeen.com/2014/05/29/ontwerpduo-fairytale-furniture-collection/#commentsThu, 29 May 2014 05:00:15 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=463655Milan 2014: a swinging birdcage seat, lamps that branch out like a tree and a table designed for playing marbles feature in this collection of Fairytale Furniture by Dutch design studio Ontwerpduo. The collection is the result of the long-term collaboration between Tineke Beunders and Nathan Wierink, the founders of Ontwerpduo who met while studying at Design […]

]]>Milan 2014:a swinging birdcage seat, lamps that branch out like a tree and a table designed for playing marbles feature in this collection of Fairytale Furniture by Dutch design studio Ontwerpduo.Cageling, as main image

The collection is the result of the long-term collaboration between Tineke Beunders and Nathan Wierink, the founders of Ontwerpduo who met while studying at Design Academy Eindhoven. Before they had even graduated, the pair had decided to work together with the aim of "translating fairy-tale ideas into functional designs and surprising the world with them".

Beunders delivers the fairy-tale part of their pact, letting her imagination run wild without the constraints of feasibility. Wierink has the task of turning her fantastical ideas into functional designs in a laboratory-like workshop.

Cageling is birdcage-like seat that hangs from a single point allowing it to swing freely in the air. "Not captured, yet safe – and as free as a bird possibly can be," said the designers. The metal-wire cage can be coated in any colour and is suitable for inside and outside use. It is lined with felt cushions, embroidered with a specially designed pattern.

Marbelous

Referencing forests and climbing plants, each Light Forest lamp is custom-made by Beunders and Wierink using aluminium, 3D-printed curves and copper shades. The Forest can be made to any colour and composition, "growing" up walls, across ceilings and around corners. "Light Forest crawls into places that other lighting cannot reach," said the designers.

Marbelous

Ontwerpduo conceived the Marbelous table as an improvement to the ones Beunders played marbles under as a child, providing grooves for the marbles to follow from the tabletop to the feet. "Marbelous sweeps table manners aside, to make way for fun," said the designers.

A box underneath provides somewhere to keep the marbles when not in use. Each table is handcrafted as part of a limited edition in the Ontwerpduo studio and is made from maple, with stainless steel marbles.

What It Is, It Isn't

The name of the What It Is, It Isn't cabinet references a quote from Lewis Carroll's story Alice in Wonderland: "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?," said Alice in the book.

The limited-edition wood, pewter and polyurethane cabinet is constructed to look like a traditional cabinet reflected in a distorted mirror, but in fact the cabinet itself is distorted.

Rockid

Rockid combines a rocking chair and a cradle, providing a simple way to rock a child to sleep. It is made from milled birch plywood and felt cushions. Beunders' initial idea for the piece came from a children's story about a group of gnomes and their nanny.

Rockid

The collection also includes Tallow, a merged candle and sconce all made from paraffin; Folia Lumina, a plant-like LED light; the coated steel and glass Split Mirror, which provides three different reflections of reality; Cottage town, tiny houses which "conjure your houseplants into forest giants"; and Unstationery, coloured paper printed with functional yet unexpected lines.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2014/05/29/ontwerpduo-fairytale-furniture-collection/feed/0Forest Light by Ontwerpduohttp://www.dezeen.com/2011/01/27/forest-light-by-ontwerpduo-2/
http://www.dezeen.com/2011/01/27/forest-light-by-ontwerpduo-2/#commentsThu, 27 Jan 2011 15:17:32 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=113951Cologne 2011: this branching ceiling light by Dutch designers Ontwerpduo was presented at imm cologne last week as part of [D3] Design Talents. Called Forest Light, the pendant lights hang from a network of aluminium-coated copper piping. Photographs are by Marly Gommans. imm cologne took place 18-23 January. See all our coverage of the event here […]

Forest light is a new system for ceiling lights. The possibilities are unlimited. The design consists out of different parts, which can be connected at the ceiling. Step by step the light system is overgrowing the ceiling as it were.

It is possible to get one ore much more light points exactly where you want them. Also a wall light is possible. Obstacles or height differences are beautiful to use with these lights.

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]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2011/01/27/forest-light-by-ontwerpduo-2/feed/1Joints by Nathan Wierinkhttp://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/27/joints-by-nathan-wierink/
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/27/joints-by-nathan-wierink/#commentsMon, 27 Oct 2008 16:10:58 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/27/joints-by-nathan-wierink/More from Ontwerpduo: Nathan Wierink exhibited a table with decorative joints at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show as part of Dutch Design Week, which ended yesterday. The mahogany table is manufactured using a CNC router, which allows more complex joints to be made than are possible with traditional hand tools. "In the past the […]

Wood joinery is functional. In the past the joinery was all made by hand. For this it was kept relatively simple. With the present day machines it is possible to make these joints faster and more accurate. Joinery made in this way is decorative as well as functional.

With this in mind there were several ways to go. The idea lends itself for different options such as child furniture with the joinery being a story, a more technical approach where the joint itself is the instruction manual. Or a subtle visual joy where the joints are beautiful and functional.

The result is a desk completely made with a CNC Router. With the joints as the decorative element in it. The desk is designed to show the joinery and give it prominent place, it is an example of how this idea of joinery can be implemented in many different ways.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/27/joints-by-nathan-wierink/feed/24When I Was Small by Tineke Beundershttp://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/27/when-i-was-small-by-tineke-beunders/
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/27/when-i-was-small-by-tineke-beunders/#commentsMon, 27 Oct 2008 02:49:37 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/27/when-i-was-small-by-tineke-beunders/Dutch designer Tineke Beunders of Ontwerpduo presents a suite of scaled-up dolls house furniture and objects at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show this month. Called When I Was Small, the range includes a coathanger made of a giant paperclip and a dressing table with hinges resembling oversized nails. See more Dezeen stories about Graduation […]

Project: When I was little
Description: This dressing table is a full-scale design in the formal idiom of a doll’s house. With rounded forms, unusual proportions, and a green coating give it a fairytale feel. Enlarging, a paper clip becomes a useful coat hanger and a nail, a decorative handle.

'When I was little...'
January 2008

Barbiedolls, playmobil and dollhouses... They have become too small for me, or I am too big for them. When I was little, I made accessories for my dolls. With these accessories and dolls I made stories. Ordinary everyday stories, with everyday things. Nowadays these stories are special memories. These special memories can be a part of our everyday life again.

Looking at my small toys and using their specific shapes and solutions I've redesigned and made my toys the adult size. And when you use my products in your daily life, you can't help to dream away sometimes...